COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL223500261
Reference Number:
JA/33/1/1/68
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Photographs, portraits and related items (n.d. 1850s): Album 'commenced Nov. 26th 1857'
Parent Work Title:
Darling Point and Clark Island
Creator:
Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882
Creator Role:
Photographer
Creator Role:
Compiler
Date Created:
1858-02-01
Page/Sheet:
68
Image Sequence Number:
073
Image Sequence Total:
185
Description:
View of a headland jutting out to sea, Darling point and Clark Island, as seen from Jevons' house in Double Bay, eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. The garden's wooden picket fence is visible in the foreground. Boats can be seen in the bay. Handwritten caption(s) in ink or pencil on the album page: 'Darling Point and Clarks Island from the window' | '1/2/58'.
Subject:
Photograph albums--1850-1860
Subject:
Photographic prints--1850-1860
Subject:
Landscape photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Outdoor photography--Australia--New South Wales--1850-1860
Subject:
Bays--Australia
Subject:
Bodies of water
Subject:
Coasts
Subject:
Trees
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Sub-Category:
Albumen prints
Technique Used:
Albumen process
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Australia: New South Wales
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Places Covered:
Australia: New South Wales
Item Height:
130 mm
Item Width:
174 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
Copyright restrictions may apply
Notes:
• Monochrome photographic print, mounted on paper with one other print: /69. Bound in an album with a total of 172 photographs of places in Sydney, and of friends and colleagues at the Sydney Royal Mint, taken or compiled by William Stanley Jevons during the 1850s. Between 1854-1859 Jevons was employed as Assayer at the Sydney Royal Mint and also carried out detailed social surveys of the city's slums. • Print 68 also appears in album JA/33/1/2 as print 4.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2022-08-18
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2022-11
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Rylands
